heat mapping, facial recognition and Predictive Policing: How investigator the computer systems use to solve crimes or to predict.

you Can predict who is going to make you a criminal? Police officers increasingly use Algorithms to the dangerousness of people to assess. How reliable these programs are and who developed them? Jannis Brühl, head of the SZ-digital editorial that speaks about the “Passenger Name Record”, the you will get the BKA soon of all air passengers in Germany, and explains the opportunities and risks associated with such digital Tools.

in addition, Vanessa Wormer, the heads of the SZ Team for data and Digital Investigation, talks about the so-called false hit, False Positive, and that is Because, often, new digital systems are not as reliable as we think.

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you can now read all the Research on Predictive Policing by Ronen Steinke and Jannis Brühl.

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